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Mon, December 9, 2019 | 14:07

Abrupt policy change

The Ministry of Education has been criticized for suddenly changing its high school education policy without reflecting the different voices of students, parents and teachers. No one can easily accept the way the government makes any policy shift in such a rough-and-ready manner.

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-08 17:37

Policy defies reality

The Moon Jae-in administration has done little to cope with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Businesses say they feel the nation has failed to make any progress in promoting the vital industrial transition.

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-08 17:37

Need for new politics

The ruling and opposition parties are preparing themselves for the general election scheduled for April 15. Most of all, they are trying to recruit promising politicians, young and reform-minded, to increase their chances of an election victory.

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-07 17:25

Cutback in soldiers, teachers

The government has unveiled its second policy package to cushion the impact of the expected fall in the country's population in the coming decades. The measures worked out by an interagency taskforce call for reducing the number of Korea's standing armed forces from the current 580,000 to 500,000 by 2022, and cutting down on the training of new teachers more rapidly than prev...

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-07 17:25

US full-court press

Senior U.S. officials and diplomats have arrived in South Korea amid growing challenges to the alliance. They are Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan Marc Knapper; James DeHart, the top negotiator in defense cost-sharing negotiations with South Korea; and Keith Krach, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy a...

Na Jeong-ju2019-11-06 17:22

Expansion of public sector

The Moon Jae-in administration plans to create about 34,000 government jobs next year in accordance with its presidential election pledge to increase the number of civil servants by 174,000 through 2022. The figure is the largest in 29 years since the government hired nearly 36,000 public officials in 1991.

Na Jeong-ju2019-11-06 17:21

Mega trade pact

The 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and five other countries, including South Korea, agreed on a mega Asia-Pacific trade pact during their summit in Bangkok, Monday. The pact aims to create a mammoth economic bloc that accounts for half of the world's population and one-third of the world's total gross domestic product (GDP). A formal ac...

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-05 17:07

Step in right direction

Will entertainers' photos disappear from soju bottles? People are asking this question after the Ministry of Health and Welfare began a move to ban local distilleries from promoting their alcoholic products through the use of celebrity pictures on their bottles and cans.

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-05 16:49

US siding with Japan

U.S. diplomats are increasingly voicing concerns about South Korea's decision to terminate the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), a military intelligence-sharing pact it signed with Japan in 2016.

Na Jeong-ju2019-11-04 17:12

Paradox of rate cuts

Customers are angry about the rising trend of banks' lending rates, although the Bank of Korea cut its benchmark interest rate to 1.25 percent in mid-October, matching a previous record low. It certainly defies common sense for lending rates to rise when the central bank's policy rate goes down.

Park Yoon-bae2019-11-04 17:00

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